Palaquium beccarianum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium beccarianum (Pierre) P. v. Royen

Protologue: Blumea 8: 424 (1957).

Synonyms

• Croixia beccariana Pierre (1890),
• Palaquium ferox H.J. Lam (1925),
• Planchonella beccariana (Pierre) H.J. Lam (1925).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: asam babi, binjai babi, nyatu tingang (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree, about 20 m tall.
• Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate or oblanceolate, with distinct, transverse tertiary veins hairy beneath.
• Flowers in 5-8-flowered clusters, borne on 5-9 mm (-25 mm in fruit) long pedicels.
• Fruit ellipsoid, 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous and greenish.

P. beccarianum is found in lowland forest and is locally common. The density of the timber is about 600 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 190, 461, 743.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)